Calamarca
Calamarca
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Calamarca (Hispanicized spelling) or Qala MarkaLa Paz Department in Bolivia. It is the seat of Calamarca Municipality, the fourth municipal section of Aroma Province. It lies on the Altiplano on the east side of the main road between La Paz and Patacamaya, about 60 km south of La Paz.[2]
Calamarca has a late 16th-century church with a silver altar worked in a rococo style, and two rococo altar pieces. It also contains the largest preserved amount of colonial
Ángeles arcabuceros paintings in a site.[2]
Notable people
- Rosmery Mollo - reproductive health activist.
See also
References
- ^ Morales, Salustiano Ayma (2011). Aymara aru thakhinchawi (PDF) (in Aymara). La Paz, Bolivia: Arcus Industria Gráfica for the Ministry of Education. p. 25. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-02-26. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
- ^ a b "Calamarca". Archived from the original on 29 August 2014.
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